Our Environment

This section is about the broader environment around us. I apply the 'Triple Bottom Line' in my work - which means taking into account and trying to achieve a balance between the economic, social and environmental impacts of what I/we do.

I am curious about the possibility of a more balanced, more inter-connected, more compassionate world.

Some organisations and individuals seeking sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us are in 'Good links'.

In a business context Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solar Century, Stagecoach Group and Virgin Group have linked up and produced a report on Peak Oil. Click here for their website and report.

There is also the Lloyd's 'Rapid Climate Change' Report. The forward to this report reads:
"Since our first report on climate change, ‘Adapt or Bust’, we have seen the most conclusive evidence yet that the climate’s current warming trend is directly linked to human activity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has effectively closed the debate, and the latest science suggests that change will take place faster than previously thought. At the same time, we have seen certain media coverage and messaging around climate change questioned by some of the scientific community as irresponsible “Hollywoodisation” of the facts. How rapidly can we expect climate change to take place? What does it mean for our lifetime?"

And here is the link to Story of Stuff - www.storyofstuff.com a 20-minute, amusing and informative take on our production and consumption patterns.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin